New Ivy League rule about uniforms

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There is a new rule in the Ivy League this year relating to the back-to-back games that teams play every weekend. Teams are now allowed to wear their home jerseys for one of the two games, to avoid having to either find a place to do laundry on the road or just wearing the same uniforms without washing them (ugh).

This, according to Ivy League associate director Chuck Yrigoyen was a decision made by the coaches, and is an option, not a rule.

This happened for the first time on Saturday night against Columbia, when the Quakers wore their blue uniforms at home.

According to Darlene Camacho, assistant director of Athletics Communications at Columbia, the Lions used to wash their uniforms after the Friday game. This year, though, they will continue to wear blue one night and white on the other.

Speaking of Columbia, I have finally figured out what brand of uniforms they wear -- Anaconda Sports. You can see a picture of the Lions' logo on their shorts here and a photo from Anaconda's Web site of Hofstra's shorts with the same logo.

So, we need to change the uniform standings for Penn based on this new information. Penn is now 5-3 in white, 1-1 in red and 3-1 in blue. The Quakers, with their two road uniforms, will not have to wear white on the road, but if they play more teams that do, we'll see if there is any consistency to what they wear at home.

Meanwhile, at Princeton on Saturday night, Cornell came out in their white uniforms. According to David Rosenfeld, assistant director of communication in the Princeton athletic department, the Tigers were quite aware of the rule until they saw the Big Red in white. Some Tigers players were in the preliminary warm-ups before the game in white uniforms, but they changed in the locker room in plenty of time for the game.

Rosenfeld was not sure at this point whether Princeton would be wearing white on the road this year, but we will find out soon enough.

As for the Big Red, they are on break until next week so I can't be sure that they will continue to use the white on the road, but it is a good assumption.

I think the rule itself is fair, although back-to-back games have been going on for an awful long time and this is the first time this has been done as far as I know. Maybe laundry bills got too high, or teams cannot afford to buy two sets of road uniforms.